2026 Best Value Medicine Schools in South Carolina

[Medicine](/majors/health-care-professions/medicine/) degree programs vary widely in price and payoff across the country. The schools below stand out for delivering a strong medicine education at a price that pays off.
College Factual analyzed 2 schools to build this 2026 ranking of the best value medicine schools.
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2026 Best Value Medicine Schools in South Carolina
If you want to know which schools deliver the best value for the medicine degrees they offer, see the list below.
Best Value Medicine Schools
University Of South Carolina Columbia tops our 2026 list of the best value medicine schools in South Carolina. Set in the city of Columbia, University Of South Carolina Columbia is a very large public institution. Students from in state pay about $12,688 in tuition and fees, compared with $36,298 for out-of-state students. Typical student debt for medicine graduates is $24,472. Soon after graduation, medicine degree recipients from University Of South Carolina Columbia generally make around $61,512. That is a strong return on a $24,472 median debt. The acceptance rate is 60%.
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Notes and References
This list is compiled by College Factual (MF_RANKING_2025), 2026 edition. Schools are scored on the balance of cost (tuition and student debt) against student outcomes (post-graduation earnings) — a measure of return on investment, drawn primarily from the U.S. Department of Education (IPEDS and College Scorecard).
Ranking method: College Major Best Value · 2 schools evaluated.
*Averages shown above reflect the top 2 ranked schools only.
- The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE), serves as the core of our data about colleges.
- Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
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